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Atm this reads like a shopping list, _but_ if it goes ahead, and even if it doesn’t fully deliver, I think this could be the impulse that Python needs to remain relevant in scientific programming.

Clearly it is the leader right now by a long way, but Julia is growing really fast.




Was Julia also part of the impetus for the recent pep for adding macros?


I remember asking this question here or on reddit when that popped up, and was rebuffed, but I do suspect Julia having powerful macros was a driver.


The author of that macro PEP [0] is the same Mark Shannon behind the speedup proposal under discussion.

[0]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/




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